Page 3 Girls Not Welcome in South Africa
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Tabloid journalism comes to South Africa:
Daily Sun interviewed a woman whose husband had dumped her for the local traditional healer and another who claimed to have been raped by a gorilla.
One report told of a magic tree whose leaves enlarged the penis of any man to eat them.
“We are very like the British tabloids … but there is also an African element. Instead of the romping vicar there is the romping sangoma,” said Brophy.
But while stories about sex are a staple, nudity is a touchy subject in conservative Africa.
Daily Voice decided to risk a “page three girl” - the British institution that puts topless women on page three - but some shops refuse to stock the paper, particularly in Muslim areas.
Witchdoctors, sex, feed tabloid-hungry South Africa
